Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team on a temporary basis, working as a Band 5 Dietitian within Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust!
This post will enable the successful candidate to consolidate and advance their skills and knowledge in a range of clinical areas. You will be part of the inpatient team based in the acute hospital at King Mill Hospital and also cover the Community Hospitals in Mansfield and Newark. You will have your own caseload, which will be mostly in-patients with some opportunities to support outpatient clinics.
Applicants need to be registered dietitians, with excellent communication skills and a flexible approach. We have close links with the University of Nottingham and Sheffield University and take student dietitians for placements.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, supported by team leader/clinical lead and multi-professional team
- Able to travel to areas within and beyond the trust if required
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian
- Registered with the Health Professions Council.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Member of BDA
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as part of a team and build relationships with patients/carers, and other staff
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations, handle sensitive and confidential information and overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions about dietetic care
- Able to make decisions within own work role working within departmental and professional guidelines and under the direction of senior dietitians and clinical team leader.
- Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment
- Able to use a computer, including relevant computer programmes
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people, including dietetic clinical placements and the general public
Desirable
- Experience of working as a registered dietitian
Person Specification
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Able to make decisions within own work role guided by broad policies and guidelines, supported by team leader/clinical lead and multi-professional team
- Able to travel to areas within and beyond the trust if required
- Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Dietitian
- Registered with the Health Professions Council.
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Member of BDA
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills including explaining, negotiating, motivating and training
- Able to work as part of a team and build relationships with patients/carers, and other staff
- Able to overcome difficulties in communication, including language barriers, and adapt approach to varying situations, handle sensitive and confidential information and overcome barriers to understanding
- Able to interpret and evaluate complex information from a variety of sources using professional judgement to solve problems and make decisions about dietetic care
- Able to make decisions within own work role working within departmental and professional guidelines and under the direction of senior dietitians and clinical team leader.
- Able to carry out anthropometric measurements accurately and use relevant equipment
- Able to use a computer, including relevant computer programmes
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with people, including dietetic clinical placements and the general public
Desirable
- Experience of working as a registered dietitian
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
